vs. Scott Jorgensen vs. Damacio Page (Jorgensen's original opponent, Jesse Morenge is off due to injury)

vs. Chance Farrar vs. Micah Miller

vs. Charlie Valencia vs. Yoshiro Maeda

vs. Cody Wheeler vs. Del Hawkins

vs. Mark Hominick vs. Josh Grispi

Scott_Revels

12/13/07 3:04:48PM

Ah, good. I wondered who Condit was facing.. I heard about McCollough/Varner, but hadn't heard anything about Condit's opponent, so i'm glad to see someone knows.. Kind've stupid that if they knew who the champions were facing, why they didn't tell us.

fedorwins1

12/13/07 7:05:46PM

Varner is going to take the belt!

Khaos

12/14/07 2:21:18PM

Posted by fedorwins1

Varner is going to take the belt!

I agree

DCRage

12/22/07 8:00:03AM

Another fight has reportedly been added to the card: Leonard Garcia (dropping from Lightweight in UFC) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya, a Japanese Featherweight making his WEC debut. Takaya has a 9-4-1 career record, all but one fight in either Shooto or K-1. He hasn't fared well against top opposition though, his 4 losses came to Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante, Genki Sudo, Andre "Dida" Amade, and Gilbert Melendez.

jae_1833

12/22/07 8:29:10PM

I hope Jamie takes the belt too, the only question to me is can he the punch. I think Rob will be the best striker that he has ever faced. I will still most likely pick Jamie to win via submission in the 2nd or 3rd.

fedorwins1

12/24/07 4:42:46PM

I'm excited to see Takaya fight, I've seen him fight JZ and Dida and he lost both, but from what I hear he's a great fighter and Garcia is the perfect person to test him.

theman209

12/27/07 4:33:00AM

Garcia vs. Takaya has the potential to be a war! I think Condit's improved since the last time he fought Prater and I expect him to avenge his loss. As for McCullough/Varner, this should be a great title fight. However, i think mcCullough will take it and retain his belt.

jae_1833

12/27/07 4:53:46PM

Good pick with Prater....definately a real good fighter, I was wondering when Zuffa was going to sign him.

DoctorKilljoy

1/1/08 7:04:46PM

varner talks too much trash i hope rob knocks his head off

i think prater takes the belt tho

DCRage

1/4/08 12:21:27PM

First post updated with new fights. WEC has added the event to their website and confirmed that Condit & McCullough will defend their titles, but challengers have not been named yet.

evilpimp

1/9/08 7:50:17PM

cool thanks for the info

nickcuc547

1/11/08 6:49:42PM

looks like a good card. im not a huge condit fan but the guy is a great fighter, and varner vs. razor rob should be a great fight. looking like a third straight stellar wec card.

Edit: There's some conflicting information between the MMAWeekly card and the official card on WEC's website. MMAWeekly says Hiroyuki Takaya faces Garcia, but WEC's website says Yoshiki Takahashi is the actual opponent. Also, Hominick vs. Grispi is not on the official card yet.

BerndRealBad

1/18/08 1:16:55AM

Not saying WEC doesn't know what fighter they're actually signing, but I seriously doubt it's Takahashi. If it's that Takahashi, he normally fights at light heayvweight, so he would have to drop, oh...55 or 60 pounds to make that weight. I would like to see that.

DCRage

1/18/08 8:23:51AM

They've changed it back to Takaya now. They're really making my life difficult. I'll fix the first post when I have a chance.

roger

1/30/08 8:52:20PM

loks like it's going to be a good set of fights

DCRage

2/8/08 7:53:59AM

Late change to the card: Jesse Morenge is off due to a fractured foot. It's not known if a replacement for his fight against Scott Jorgensen will be named or if the fight will be dropped completely.

BlazinSaddle

2/8/08 2:29:52PM

Prater.. via submission in the 2nd (similar to their first fight)McCullough.. via knockout in the 1stHominick.. via knockout in the 2ndGarcia.. via submission in the 1stTapia.. via decisionFarrar.. via technical knock out in the 2ndValencia.. via knockout in the 3rd

npayant

2/9/08 8:38:30PM

Beebe vs Torres

Who do you have? I'm leaning towards Torres

I picked against Beebe last time and it looked like I might be right until he withstood an almost sure fight-ending submission...

Will he be able to survive against another BJJ stud??

BlazinSaddle

2/9/08 9:23:00PM

i dont really follow bantamweights or featherweights

torres vs bebee has the makings of a great fight think i would to choose torres by decision or submission but chase is the champ and has great skills could easily catch him in a sub/tko or decision, again dont really follow this weight class at all but seen some of there fights

Salty

2/10/08 11:05:03PM

Josh Gripsi photo if someone wants to put it on the MMA Picks page

DCRage

2/11/08 2:56:59PM

Scott Jorgensen will be on the card this Wednesday, Damacio Page is the late injury replacement.

Edit: Some notes on Page and the late change...In 1996 Page faced Genki Sudo on the K-1 NYE show.The reason Morenge is off and Page is in is Morenge suffered a leg injury in training last Thursday.

Only 4 fights are scheduled to be televised because of the 3 title fights, which are all 5-round fights.

Dadaman

2/12/08 5:49:04PM

Torres has about 3 times the experience Chase Beebe has and only has one loss . Torres was taught by the late Carlson Gracie and he's a jiu jitsu stud and his striking is no joke either. Look at his record... he has a plethora of tools at his disposal.

I see the LW title fight going to a decision. Varner wants nothing to do with the stand up. And, I have Carlo Prater with an upset.

KYGUY07

2/12/08 8:47:49PM

I cant wait for this tommorow, i think Varner is walking out a champion.

Kpro

2/13/08 3:46:46AM

Micah Miller apparently weighed in at 147.5 the first try but made weight on his second attempt.